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TIL that there is a species of deer (Water Deer) with long Sabertooth like fangs that are used purely for combat.

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p8Dk8 TIL that Bassian thrush birds use farting as a way of disturbing their prey into moving so they can spot and catch them
nWW9o TIL of Makibefo, a 1999 film adaptation of Macbeth directed by British director Alexander Abela, was filmed in Madagascar with just 1 technical assistant, had a cast consisted of all Antandroy people, an indigenous people of Madagascar, most of whom had never seen a movie and improvised everything.
wne1 TIL Carl Sagan describes the Bermuda Triangle as a statistical fallacy. He explains, “Why is it always planes and ships that get lost? It’s because they can sink in water. If we started losing trains–if we had a Duluth Triangle in which trains began disappearing–that would be interesting.”
BjLK TIL that, due to a wartime shortage of copper, the Manhattan Project borrowed almost 15,000 tons of silver from the US Treasury to make wiring for the electromagnets in isotope-separating mass spectrometers. The wire, worth over a billion dollars at the time, was removed and returned after the war.
l7gV TIL Spiders can travel in jet streams at altitudes exceeding 16000 ft above sea level